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Assad Khoury, and his wife Sofia, opened a new restaurant in Cherry Hill, NJ, specializing in modern and traditional Greek and Mediterranean cuisine. “Kuzina by Sofia” is located in Sawmill Village Shopping Center, 404 Route 70 West, Cherry Hill.
Steve Economou, Managing Director of Curtis Financial Group, LLC will be presenting a workshop session on Fairness Opinions at the 13th Annual Business Lawyers’ Institute on October 17th and 18th, 2007. During his career in investment banking and corporate finance, Mr. Economou has delivered more than 150 valuation and fairness opinions related to mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, financings, and recapitalizations. The Annual Business Lawyers Institute will be held in Philadelphia and is sponsored by the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, the Continuing Legal Education Arm of the Pennsylvania Bar Association.
Drexel University President Constantine Papadakis, Ph.D., a member of the Greek American Chamber, was honored at the Annual Dinner of the Glogal Interdependance Center (GIC) on July 25, 2007. The event took place at the Four Seasons Hotel in Philadelphia. GIC is a nonprofit organization that encourages the expansion of global dialogue and free trade. The event Chairman was the Dean of Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business, George Tsetsekos, Ph.D., also a member of GACC.
On July 25, 2007, GACC board member, Joanna Savvides participated in a program sponsored by Women International Leaders of Greater Philadelphia (WIL) and co-sponsored by the World Trade Center of Greater Philadelphia. The program was entitled "Cultural Differences in Doing Business in Other Countries."
Peter Thermos, GACC member and President of Palindrome Technologies released his latest book, "Securing VoIP Networks: Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Countermeasures". Co-authored with Ari Takanen, the book provides a broad overview of the security challenges associated with VoIP and Next Generation Networks. Detailed, in-depth technical recommendations are provided to help organizations secure voice and other multi-media connections.
- Jordan D. Yuelys, Esquire of Hackensack, New Jersey has been re-elected to the position of President of the Hellenic American Bar Association of New Jersey. It will be his third year as President. Jordan D. Yuelys, Esquire also served as President in 1996. At that time he had been the youngest President ever elected to the Hellenic American Bar Association of New Jersey.
Curtis Financial Managing Director Steve Economou led a panel discussing "The New World of Valuation" at the MAC Institute on May 24, 2007 at The ACE Center in Lafayette Hill, PA. Mr. Economou is a member of the GACC and sits on the GACC of Greater Philadelphia Advisory Board. Curtis Financial Group, LLC is an investment banking firm with offices in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh that advises middle market companies on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, raising capital, and provides fairness opinions, business valuations, and related corporate finance advisory services.
On May 16, 2007, Tassos Efstratiades, a partner in the law firm of Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel, was one of the presenters at a seminar on "Economic Development Financing in Pennsylvania" in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mr. Efstratiades' presentation was on 'Documenting Industrial Development Bond Transactions'.
Nick Tsapatsaris along with Efstathios Valiotis are the recipients of the "Distinguished Business Leader" Award from Barnert Hospitals in Patterson, New Jersey. Tsapatsaris and Valiotis are real estate developers who are leading the revitalization efforts in Paterson with a mixed-use development of over 1.5 million square feet of retail, commercial and residential structures scheduled for completion in late 2008. Nick Tsapatsaris in one of the founding members of the GACC.
- Peter Thermos of Palindrome presented a seminar on Threats, Attacks, Vulnerabilities and Protection mechanisms of VoIP Networks in a 2-day hands-on workshop at DallasCon 2007 in May 2007.
George Tsetsekos, Ph.D., Dean of LeBow School of Business at Drexel University, led a group of Drexel MBA students to Wall Street on September 29, 2006, where he rang the closing bell of the NYSE.
Tassos Efstratiades, partner at Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP, participated as a speaker at a seminar in New Brunswick, New Jersey on “Commercial Loan Documents: More than Just Papers in New Jersey.”
On December 6, 2006, the Philadelphia Business Journal acknowledged talents, services and worth of 25 local business women. One of them was GACC board member, Joanna Savvides. Joanna is the president of the World Trade Center of Greater Philadelphia. She also has her own consulting business, Transworld Ventures, LLC. Joanna is a true pioneer among women in the field of global business. “The diversity of doing business internationally is what drives me,” she explains, “People in business cannot be bound by borders or cultural differences. I find something interesting in every part of the world.” Indeed, she does. When you talk to Joanna, she has fascinating stories to tell about her childhood in Cyprus, college years in Yugoslavia and the start of her professional career around the world. For many of us, she also exemplifies a true American success story. Having immigrated to the United States in 1980, she quickly embraced the ideals of freedom and liberty and adopted the culture of her newfound homeland with ease. In fact, for eight years in the 1990’s she even served as a member of the Agricultural Technical Advisory Committee to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and the U.S. Trade Representative.
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